A Unifying Force: The Art of Revision San Diego
March 14 - April 18, 2026
Joe Thurston, Rectangles of Color, 2024, tempera paint stick on paper
Best Practice is very excited to present A Unifying Force: The Art of Revision San Diego. This exhibition highlights the work of Revision San Diego, a nonprofit organization that provides inclusive access to art, culture, and environmental education for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Founded in 2017, Revision provides studio spaces in Hillcrest and La Mesa, where thirty-five resident artists collaborate with creative mentors to craft vibrant works in painting, drawing, sculpture, video, textile, and other mediums. The organization also runs a gallery and gift shop—where resident artists’ work is on display and for sale—and offers inclusive workshops open to the wider community.
Best Practice’s presentation brings together some of Revision’s most dedicated artists, whose work often prizes material re-use and sustainability. Titled after Revision Founder and Director Joy Boe’s comment that art is a “unifying force,” the exhibition reveals the aesthetic dynamism, creative innovation, and contemporary relevance of the work being made at Revision.
Artists in the exhibition include Alex Acosta, Charlie Allbritton, Delano Carter, Sean Chambers, Xavier Dionne, Katie Flores, Alex Katzenson, Alex Nichols, Joe Thurston, Deanna Tran, Charlotte Voitzwinkler, and Kelsey Wilson.
This exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Rooklidge.
Elizabeth Rooklidge is a San Diego-based independent curator whose exhibitions have been featured around Southern California. She previously served as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Associate Curator at the Katonah Museum of Art.
Recent exhibitions include Picturing Health, Best Practice (2024); Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive, La Jolla Historical Society (2022); Shirin Towfiq: Looking For a Sign, City Gallery, San Diego City College (2022); Flavia D’Urso: Slippage of a Strand, Grand Central Art Center (2020); and A Show About Touching, Bread & Salt Gallery (2019).
UPCOMING
RUINS: PERFORMING QUEER HISTORY
curated by Nathan Storey
May 9 - June 13, 2026
Cat Gunn & Mika Castañeda
July 11 - August 15, 2026
Noé Olivas
September 12 - October 17, 2026
Jertsin Crosby & Tara Merenda Nelson
curated by Joshua Tonies
November 14 - December 19, 2026
1955 Julian Avenue
San Diego, CA 92113
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25th/Commercial on the Orange Line
Barrio Logan on the Blue Line
Gallery hours (during exhibitions):
Tuesday - Saturday
11am - 4pm